Emilie Meyn

Emilie Meyn (b. 1997, Denmark) is a London based artist, primarily working with painterly monoprints. She received her BA in Illustration and Visual Media from University of the Arts London in 2019. In her practice she explores feminine identity and its relationship to body, sexuality, shame and loss through feminine writing and image-making.

touching;

scratching,

speaking;

kissing,

walking,

seeing,

laughing;

walking,

bathing,

breathing

fucking,

walking,

sleeping,

dreaming,

sleeping,

dreaming,

feel, skin, pore, hair, growing, moulding, caressing, touching, feeling, static, flesh,  bulge, sweat, heave, hold, hug, touch, feel, caress, grow, mould, hair, skin, feel

what I couldn’t put into words at the time is now etched into me,

hot beneath my skin.

I work with ideas of the feminine body and its relationship to identity, sexuality, loss and shame. My work is largely autobiographical and my figures are all representative of myself and my experiences living in a feminine body. Using image-making as an extension of myself, creating painterly monoprints from and of my body.  

Writing is an important part of my process. Helene Cixous’ essay The laugh of the Medusa, heavily influenced the development of my writing which has translated into my image making as well. Writing and creating in a free flowing stream of consciousness; expressing the unconscious and ineffable, which cannot be found or expressed within structuralist language. Feminine writing has influenced me to write and create more freely.

Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen, Paula Cohen, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1 (1976)